Missouri football and Vanderbilt will play a top-15 matchup — and College GameDay will be in Nashville for the game.
College GameDay will be in Nashville, Tennessee, for Missouri football’s trip to face Vanderbilt.
Both teams are 6-1 on the season heading into Week 9 of the college football season, and the matchup on Saturday, Oct. 25, is going to be a top-15 contest. The game will kick off at 2:30 p.m. and air on ESPN.
Mizzou was ranked No. 14 in the updated US LBM Coaches Poll and No. 15 in the AP Top 25. Vanderbilt was No. 11 in the coaches poll and No. 10 in the AP rankings.
The last time Missouri beat a top-10 team in the AP poll on the road was at Georgia in 2013.
The Tigers have previously been the road team for a College GameDay matchup three times and at a neutral site that the show attended twice.
The last time Mizzou was in a game that College GameDay traveled to also was against South Carolina. The pregame show was in Columbia, South Carolina, as the Gamecocks hosted Missouri in 2014. MU won 21-20.
The Tigers were on the show three times in 2007: A 41-31 road loss to Oklahoma in the regular season; a famous 36-28 win over Kansas in the Border War at Arrowhead Stadium to clinch the Big 12 North title; and a 38-17 loss to OU in the Big 12 title game.
GameDay also was in Austin, Texas, as Mizzou lost 56-31 to Texas in the 2008 regular season.
Mizzou has hosted GameDay one time: In 2010, when the Tigers beat Oklahoma, which was No. 1 in the then-BCS at the time, on Oct 23, 2010, on Faurot Field.
The show’s host is Rece Davis, and he is joined by Nick Saban, Desmond Howard, Kirk Herbstreit and Pat McAfee as analysts. There also will be a to-be-determined celebrity guest picker.
Missouri (6-1, 2-1 SEC) beat Auburn 23-17 in double-overtime on Saturday, Oct. 18 in Auburn, Alabama, coming from behind in the fourth quarter after a clunky performance to claim a road win.
Earlier Saturday, Vanderbilt (6-1, 2-1) knocked off LSU in a top-20 matchup on its home field. The Commodores have also beat South Carolina on the road this season.
Both teams’ only loss on the season so far was to Alabama.
Vanderbilt was the road team at the Crimson Tide when College GameDay visited Tuscaloosa earlier this season.
After his postgame press conference, Eli Drinkwitz asked reporters whether or not the GameDay site had been announced — it had not — and then joked that he had heard it was going to Nashville, which had been suggested by McAfee during the GameDay broadcast in the show’s stop in Athens, Georgia, earlier Saturday.
He was right.
Mizzou and Vanderbilt will play a high-stakes game that will have legitimate implications for both the College Football Playoff field and SEC title race.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri football’s game at Vanderbilt tabbed for College GameDay
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